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The Columbia glacier

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Warming drives Alaskan glacier to its lowest point in 900 years

The Columbia glacier was tipped into rapid retreat by human-caused climate warming of less than 2°C, so many more glaciers might be doomed

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Simonkolleite found in a copper mine in Arizona

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Rock solid evidence of Anthropocene seen in 208 minerals we made

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volcano picture

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Volcanoes: Oxford exhibition gives the fiery inside story

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A fountain of lava

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Secrets of Earth's birth carried in lava jets from planet's core

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Earth from space, showing clouds

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Simple equation shows how human activity is trashing the planet

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measuring stick

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Everest is not the world's tallest mountain – and here's why

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Mauritius

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Long-lost continent found submerged deep under Indian Ocean

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Quartz

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Planet Earth makes its own water from scratch deep in the mantle

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oxygen bubbles

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Complex life may have had a false start 2.3 billion years ago

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magnet lead

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The paradox powering Earth's magnetic field

Our planet’s protective force field appears to be billions of years older than the mechanism that got it going. So what really made Earth magnetic?

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Molten iron river discovered speeding beneath Russia and Canada

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Dinosaur-killing asteroid turned planet Earth inside-out

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Danger and drama on mountains of lava: Tales of a volcano chaser

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Huge lake discovered 15 kilometres under a volcano

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